Explores the relationship between with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police(RCMP) and First Nations people in Alberta and ways it can be improved.
Duration: 24:35.
Historical background, analysis, and recommendation from Indian Claims Commission (ICC). Issue whether land used for projects was lawfully surrendered or expropriated. No determination by ICC as parties agreed to negotiate a settlement. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]
Final report regarding the two specific claims arguing that reserve lands taken for highway construction were never surrendered to Canada and/or transferred to the Province of Quebec. Commissioners include : Sheila G. Purdy and Alan C. Holman.
[These files were created and compiled by the ICC and provided to the Indigenous Studies Portal in 2009 to make widely available in online format.]
Legislative Summary (Parliamentary Information and Research Service) ; LS-510E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marlisa Tiedemann
Description
Brief description of background and contents of the Bill, which provides First Nations with the option of managing and regulating oil and gas exploration and exploitation and receiving moneys otherwise held for them by Canada.
Interviewee recounts stories told to him by his father about the signing of Treaty #8;denial of Indian requests for reserve; and traditional lifestyle.
Frederick Leroy Barney Appellant and Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada, As Represented By The Minister Of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, and the United Church of Canada Respondents vs. Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada...
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Supreme Court of Canada
Description
Deals with compensable harms done to former students of the Alberni Indian Residential School and vicarious liability of the part of the United Church of Canada.
Reports on the relations between police officers and Aboriginal residents in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The article also discusses how one Theatre Company is trying to improve this strained relationship.
The Carcross Tagish First Nation Self-Government Agreement Among The Carcoss Tagish First Nation and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada and The Government of the Yukon
The Carcross-Tagish First Nation Self-Government Agreement Among The Carcoss-Tagish First Nation and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada and The Government of the Yukon
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The Carcross First Nation
The Government of Canada
The Government of the Yukon
Description
Agreement on self-government signed at Carcross, Yukon on the 22nd day of October, 2005; includes legislation, programs and services, and ratification procedures.
The Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 20, no. 2, 2005, pp. 183-205
Description
Discusses how the Six Nations band members have accessed private property using these certificates avoid circumvent the seizure for debt restrictions in the Indian Act and acquire mortgages and own their own housing.
Discusses the Constitution and Aboriginal rights, challenges in meeting the test for Aboriginal rights, the Aboriginal perspective of irrelevance of arguments based on jurisprudential and liberal arguments, and takes a brief look at possibilities for urban governments to address social issues.
Excerpt from Canada: The State of the Federation ; 2003.
Entire book on one pdf. To access chapter scroll to p. 93.
Paediatrics & Child Health, vol. 10, no. 9, Our Children and Youth are Sacred, November 2005, pp. 553-555
Description
Discusses using a holistic approach to improving Indigenous health and fostering the development of Aboriginal citizenship through early childhood development programs.
Mr. Trindle, aged 78, has spent most of his adult life in the Trout Lake/Peerless Lake area and is a former chief--talks about promises of a reserve in the area; surveying of boundaries; duration of occupation of area; and traditional lifestyles.
Indigenous Affairs, no. 3-4, Indigenous Youth, 2005, pp. 10-18
Description
Analyzes historic origins of violence and examines economic, political and social effects on the living conditions of young people.
To access this article, scroll down to page 10.
Social Semiotics, vol. 15, no. 1, Charged Crossings: Cultural Studies of Law, April 2005, pp. 59-80
Description
Discusses how past colonial laws have harmed Aboriginal peoples and offers alternative forms of justice to redress the effects of those policies and practices.
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Paper written for conference "Impact of the Haida and Taku River Decisions". Sponsored by the Pacific Business and Law Institute held January 26-27, 2005 in Vancouver. Summary of court decision and clarification of Aboriginal Rights.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 71-95
Description
Focuses on attitudes and justifications involved in practising involuntary birth control and sterilization on Native American women in the United States.